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Walter Holländer

Walter Holländer was a brother of Edith Frank.

Person

Fotograaf onbekend. Collectie Familie Frank
  • Walter Holländer
  • Born on: Feb. 6, 1897
  • Born in: Aken, Duitsland
  • Died on: Sept. 19, 1968
  • Died in: New York, USA

Foto van Edith Frank-Höllander met haar broer Walter Höllander, niet gedateerd

Fotograaf onbekend. Collectie Familie Frank

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Walter Holländer was the second son of Abraham Holländer and Rosa Holländer-Stern and a brother of Edith Frank-Holländer.[1] Walter Holländer worked in the companies of his father, Abraham. In May 1916 he became the managing director of the car factory Heine & Holländer G.m.b.H. in Elze, near Hannover. On 3 May 1933 his powers were revoked.[2]  

After Otto Frank and his family had moved into their home on Merwedeplein, Walter and his brother Julius reunited their niece Margot with her parents.[3]  Following 'Kristallnacht', Walter was sent to a concentration camp.[4] Otto Frank managed to get permission to get him sent to a Dutch refugee camp.[5] He arrived in the Netherlands via Nijmegen on 26 December 1938, and travelled on to Rotterdam.[6]  On 27 December 1938 the Population Register of Amsterdam listed him as a resident of Camp Zeeburg.[7]  On 17 December 1939 he left for the United States with the SS Volendam.[8]

In the early 1960s he developed arthritis and diabetes. He also had lung problems and anxiety issues. He ate badly and smoked a lot.[9] In June 1963 he gave up work for health reasons.[10] In 1963 he and his brother Julius transferred one hunderd dollars to support the work of the Anne Frank House.[11] After the accidental death of Julius, Walter placed an obiturary in Aufbau.[12]

Source personal data.[13] Addresses: Liebfrauenstrasse 5, Aachen; Bahnhofstrasse 54, Elze (near Hannover);[14]  69 Merriam Avenue, Leominster, Massachussets, USA (1941).[15]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Anne refers to him as: (one of) my two uncles. Anne Frank, Diary Version B, 20 June 1942, 1st, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  2. ^ Friedrich Dreyer, ‘Von der Zuckerfabrik zur Waggonfabrik’, in: W. Beermann, Die Elzer Waggon. Die Geschichte der Fabrik von Heine und Holländer bis Waggonbau Graaff/VTG, Elze: Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Elze und Seiner Ortsteile,  2009, p. 9-29, aldaar p. 19, 24.
  3. ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Anne Frank Colectie (AFC), reg. code A_Getuigen_I_084-1: Edith Frank aan Gertrud Naumann, waarschijnlijk zaterdag 23 december 1933.
  4. ^ Melissa Müller, Anne Frank. De biografie, Amsterdam: Bakker, 1998, p. 82.
  5. ^ Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Rijksvreemdelingendienst en rechtsvoorgangers, toegangsnr. 2.09.45,inv. nr. 1697: Begeleidend schrijven, 6 december 1938.
  6. ^ NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies, Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen, inv. nr. 389: Otto Frank aan Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen, 27 december 1938.
  7. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart W. Holländer.
  8. ^ SAA, Gemeentepolitie Amsterdam, inv. nr. 4168: Vreemdelingenkaartje; Stadsarchief Rotterdam, Passagiers Holland Amerika Lijn (H.A.L.), Afvaart 'SS Volendam' op 17-12--1939 vanaf haven Rotterdam.
  9. ^ AFS, AFC, Otto Frank Archief (OFA), reg. code OFA_073: Heinz Jacobowitz aan Otto Frank, 9 juli 1961.
  10. ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code OFA_073: Heinz Jacobowitz aan Otto Frank, 26 juli 1963.
  11. ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code OFA_073: Julius en Walter Holländer aan J. Soetendorp, 12 mei 1963.
  12. ^ Aufbau, 13 oktober 1967. 
  13. ^ Standesamt Aachen, Geboortakte register A I, nr. 455, 10 februari 1897; County of New York, Surrogate's Court: nalatenschap Walter Holländer, dossiernr. 6645, 1968, Probate Petition.
  14. ^ Friedrich Dreyer, ‘Von der Zuckerfabrik zur Waggonfabrik’, p. 19.
  15. ^ YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Otto Frank File, New York, NY: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, cop. 2007, p. 14.